On the big screen, I looked down slowly at her as I pulled her trembling fingers away from my leg one by one in an utterly cruel, yet calm manner.

"You're being naive, Kyra. Power and money mean the most to me right now." I looked down at her superiorly with taunt and disdain, a look she had never seen me give her before. "Love? That's just a lie weaklings use to numb themselves, and I've gotten tired of it."

Kyra's head jerked up at me immediately as she stared at me in disbelief. I pulled the corner of my robe away from her hand and turned to leave, but she quickly stood up and said to me sorrowfully, "Julian Colt! If you leave, I'll make sure to finish you myself the next time we meet!"

I watched myself stop in my tracks on the screen while midair. My heart tightened. I was in so much pain that I could hardly make a sound. The next second, my cold voice spoke from the huge screen, "If that's the way it is, I'll be waiting for you."

After that, I turned and disappeared into the rain.

There was a major outburst on the square.

"Who does he think he is! How can he leave like that when she's kneeling in front of him?!"

"How can he say something so cruel?! He's not worthy to be a man! He's just a cold-blooded animal that should be shot!"

"Captain Schneider is a good woman. How did she end up falling in love with a traitor like that?!"

Kyra stared at the screen with reddened eyes. There was no sadness in them, and all that was left in her eyes was humiliation and fiery hate that my betrayal had fueled.

The screen continued to flash quickly.

It was now showing me as a core member of Eva's organization, where I had successfully helped them avoid major risks and streamline their operations using my experience from the police force. Every scene shown on the screen was shocking.

I was sitting in the meeting room, drawing a route with a red pen while marking where the police would be conducting a raid. The scene quickly changed to an arrest scene where an elite police team barged into an empty warehouse, triggering bombs that had been previously planted inside.

Huge bursts of flames filled the air as several colleagues fell to the ground with burning flesh.

Back in the square, several policemen watched with widened eyes as the air filled with their angry roars.

"Traitor! He killed our brothers!"

"Kill him! Kill him!"

However, the look on Kyra's face slowly changed amidst the furious roars. She remembered how that operation ended up a failure with wounded members on the team, but…

The number of wounded members was less than they anticipated, and most of them only suffered slight physical wounds. No one had experienced a life-threatening sacrifice. Kyra had always attributed this to the team's quick reaction, but now that she thought about it, could it be that…

"Kyra, are you all right?"

Sean's voice made her snap out of it. Kyra took a deep breath and forced herself to suppress the ridiculous guess that crossed her mind.

The image on the screen continued to change.

Eva's organization was plotting to cause an explosion at the chemical industrial plant in the suburbs as a distraction for them to rob the place of their fuel. I helped them plan it out flawlessly until one late night when no one was noticing.

I quietly switched out the explosives in the bomb and sent out an anonymous warning to the surrounding residents to conduct an emergency evacuation.

On the night when the plant was supposed to explode, the bomb failed to go off, and the suburbs remained in one piece while the organization suffered a major loss. Eva was furious. She tied my hands behind my back and threw me into the dark water dungeon.

The ice-cold water reached my waist, and Eva kept pushing my head violently underwater and pulling it out with a jerk before pressing it down into the water again.

"I can't believe you turned out to be a traitor, Julian Colt! Talk! Who ordered you to do that?!"

Her reddened eyes stared right into mine as her fingers were almost digging into my flesh.

The water dungeon's air was filled with a rotting smell, and the ice-cold water hurt my bones horribly. Every time my head was pushed underwater, my lungs felt like exploding from the pain of suffocation, but I clenched my teeth as I remained silent while she tortured me incessantly. Blood started to spread out on the surface of the water, making the entire sight look particularly sinister.

Everyone stopped cussing in the square as they turned silent while watching me being tortured inhumanely in the water dungeon with troubled looks on their faces. Weak voices started to spread across the crowd.

"He… He seemed to have sabotaged that mission on purpose."

"It looks like he switched out the explosives to save everyone staying around the chemical industrial plant…"

Just as everyone's opinion about me was about to change, a sharp voice yelled out from the crowd, "So what if he suddenly found his conscience and did one good thing?"

"Don't forget about the failed mission where he caused serious wounds to the police team! He's a criminal!"

The shout pulled everyone back to reality, and the empathetic voices were buried under fury once more as angry curses filled the air, except this time, the angry voices seemed unsure.

Sean watched this happen, and a gleeful smile appeared subtly on his face. However, he froze before his smile became wider because his face appeared on the big screen.

I was covered in wounds as I pushed a USB into Sean's hand, begging him hoarsely, "I'm begging you, Sean, you have to give this to Kyra with your own hands!"

The moment I said this, the entire world seemed to be on pause with silence. Millions of spectators at the square, including Sean and Kyra, looked confused. All of them instantly turned to look at Sean, even Kyra, who asked him, "Where's that USB?"

Sean's face turned pale as his eyes started to look shifty. He forced an ugly smile on his face and said, "I… I didn't dare take that USB from him then, Kyra. I was worried it was a trap set up by Julian to clear his name by harming you. A man like him manipulates the trust of others, and I… I didn't dare hand the USB to you, and I threw it away."

There was a huge outburst from the crowd.

"He's right, Captain Schneider! Lieutenant Jacobs was just trying to protect you!"

"How can a despicable man like Julian Colt be trustworthy? He just wanted to drag someone down with him before he dies!"

"Lieutenant Jacobs is a kind man who treats you well. Everything he did was for you!"

Kyra paused in her tracks and stopped questioning Sean. All she did was look at him silently. Once the seed of suspicion was planted in someone, it would begin to grow madly.

Why did Julian hand the USB to Sean, and not anyone else? Why did Sean have such a big reaction to this? Why would he destroy the evidence instead of handing it to the team for a professional analysis?

Numerous questions swirled in Kyra's mind, which unsettled her.

Sean started to feel a little creeped out by Kyra staring at him, and he suddenly clutched his heart. "Kyra, my… My heart hurts. I think it's my old wound working up. Let's stop watching the memories and go home. Please…?"

Kyra was hesitant when she saw how much in pain Sean was, and in the end, she held Sean by the arm to help him up and said with concern, "Let's go home."

Just as they were about to leave, Kyra heard a familiar voice speaking from the big screen. "Come with me and give yourself up, Julian! I'm giving you one last chance!"

Kyra stopped suddenly, and she turned to look at the screen. It was showing a dark, humid warehouse where she was on a chair with her hands tied behind her back. Deep, bloody wounds could be seen on her wrists where her hands were bound with a rope. Her lips were bleeding from dryness, and she looked extremely pale.

The screen showed her looking up to stare at me, speaking in a weak, yet determined voice, "If you really want me to leave you be, the only way to do that is to kill me."

I pulled out my gun the next second to hit her with the butt of the gun, and her eyes widened from the attack. A gunshot rang out in the night.

Yells and curses filled the square right away from the scene. Back on the screen, I was walking up to Eva when she pressed her gun against my temple. "That shot could have got her in the heart, Julian. Why did you shoot her leg instead? Are you developing feelings for your old lover again? Or are you meaning to tell me that you've betrayed me?"

Kyra immediately snapped out of her thoughts when she heard Eva's words. Eva was right. With my shooting skills, I could have killed Kyra when I shot her at the distance we were in, but I chose to shoot her in the leg instead. Did I miss the shot, or… Was it on purpose?

Her eyes started to tear up as her breathing quickened. Kyra felt like something was tearing her heart. That was when the screen jumped once more.

"No! Don't watch it, Kyra! Don't!" Sean started roaring as he tried to block Kyra's sight, but it was already too late. Kyra was staring at the screen, looking shocked at what she saw.